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Where was the shrieking monster that ran without horses like the wind and tossed back rolling black plumes all streaked with fire? For many days now she had heard stories of the "furriners" who had come into those hills and were doing strange things down there, and so at last she had climbed up through the dewy morning from the cove on the other side to see the wonders for herself.
With Joanne clinging to him, he led the way. Behind them all MacDonald growled loudly: "There's got t' be something done with these damned beasts of furriners. It's gettin' so no woman ain't safe at night!" Twenty minutes later they reached the bungalow.
They made me no answer. "He is dead, then! I knew it, my heart told me so!" "Eh! poor lass! 'Tis not so bad as that yet bad enough. They've hung chains enough upon him to anchor a man-o'-war, and moored him fast in the dungeon of the fort. D n 'em for a crew o' dastard furriners! an' he own cousin to an English earl!" "Can you not tell me a straight tale?" I cried.
"And says I to Mills," continued Mr. Craig, "'Will you try to make me believe as furriners like them can do us half th' harm them ministers do with their bad government? If King George 'ud turn 'em all away and govern by himself, he'd see everything righted. He might take on Billy Pitt again if he liked; but I don't see myself what we want wi' anybody besides King and Parliament.
She knew his strong, honest nature, and his blunt, outspoken way of giving vent to his mind, and she hoped that his knowledge of life might help to comfort her. "Married to one o' them furriners, is she?" the captain blurted out; "and goin' to keep right on livin' the lie she's lived ever since she left ye?
"I'd heerd so much about what you furriners was a-doin' over thar." "You must have heard about a place farther over but it's coming over there, too, some day." And still she looked an unspoken question. The fish that Hale had caught was lying where he had left it on the edge of the porch. "That's for you, June," he said, pointing to it, and the name as he spoke it was sweet to his ears.
Often he would see a bright speck moving about the dim lines of the cabin, and he would scarcely breathe while he watched it, so easily would it disappear. Always he had thought it was Martha, and now he knew it was, for the old miller had told him more of the girl, and had wrung his heart with pity. She had been ill a long while. The "furriners" had seized old Jasper's cabin and land.
In Breathitt the feud was long past, and with good reason old Gabe thought that it was done in Hazlan. But that autumn a panic started over from England. It stopped the railroad far down the Cumberland; it sent the "furriners" home, and drove civilization back. Marcums and Braytons came in from hiding, and drifted one by one to the old fighting-ground.
"'O, by gor, the butther's comin' out o' the stirabout in airnest now, says he, 'you gommoch, says he, 'sure I told you before that's France, and sure they're all furriners there, says the captain. "'Well, says I, 'and how do you know but I'm as good a furriner myself as any o' thim? "'What do you mane? says he.
June was out in the porch looking at the already beloved garden, and hearing his step she turned. He looked her steadily in the eyes. She saw his gaze drop to the fairy-stone at her throat, and a faint sneer appeared at his set mouth a sneer for June's folly and what he thought was uppishness in "furriners" like Hale. "So you ain't good enough fer him jest as ye air air ye?" he said slowly.
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